Harvard Chan Microbiome in Public Health Center
“Understanding the microbiome may transform our understanding of how healthy bodies become diseased, how aging leads to infirmity, and how we could alter our internal ecosystems to prevent and treat a vast range of conditions.”
– Michelle A. Williams, Former Dean, Harvard Chan School
Email
hcmph@hsph.harvard.edu
Location
677 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA 02115
2021-program
Program
For information, please contact Nicole Levesque (levesque@hsph.harvard.edu, 617-432-4902)
Monday, May 17, 2021
Virtual Meeting via Zoom and all times below are EDT
| 8:30 – 8:45 | Welcome & Introduction |
| 8:45 – 9:00 | Yasmine Belkaid, NIH/NIAID Opening Remarks |
| 9:00 – 10:00 | Maria Gloria Dominguez-Bello, Rutgers University “The human microbiome in a disruptive era” |
| 10:00 – 10:30 | Amy Willis, University of Washington “Estimating microbial abundances from high-throughput sequencing” |
| 10:30 – 10:45 | Caroline Young, University of Leeds “Screening potential of the CRC-associated microbiome” |
| 10:45 – 11:00 | Marissa Bivins, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill “Discovery of the Gut Microbial Enzymes that Drive the Dose-Limiting Toxicity of the Immunosuppressant Mycophenolate Mofetil” |
| 11:00 – 11:15 | Break |
| 11:15 – 11:45 | Liz Johnson, Cornell University “Dietary lipids as modulators of microbiome function” |
| 11:45 – 12:15 | Greg Caporaso, Northern Arizona University “Accessible and reproducible microbiome multi-omics bioinformatics with QIIME 2” |
| 12:15 – 1:30 | Lunch Break |
| 1:30 – 2:00 | Dong Daniel Wang, Harvard Medical School, Brigham & Women’s Hospital “The Gut Microbiome Modifies the Associations between Diet and Cardiometabolic Disease Risk” |
| 2:00 – 2:15 | Apollo Stacy, NIH/NIGMS “Infection trains the host for microbiota-enhanced resistance to pathogens” |
| 2:15 – 2:30 | Amrisha Bhosle, Broad Institute & Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health “Prioritization and Annotation of Novel Bioactive Small Molecules from the Microbiome” |
| 2:30 – 2:45 | Break |
| 2:45 – 3:15 | Elaine Hsiao, University of California, Los Angeles “Interactions between the microbiome and nervous system during early neurodevelopment” |
| 3:15 – 4:15 | Peter Turnbaugh, University of California, San Francisco “The tiny pharmacists within: how the microbiome impacts the treatment of chronic and infectious diseases” |
| 4:15 – 4:30 | Closing Remarks |
| Poster Reception available online all day here |